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Russia could earn several hundred million dollars if the United States, Britain and France agreed to let it dispose of their old nuclear submarines, says Alexander Rumyantsev, head of the Federal Nuclear Power Agency, or Rosatom. His proposal made on Monday alarmed international environmental organizations, which described Rosatom's announcement as "silly" and stressed that Russia could gain from such projects only with the assent of the other countries. |
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U.S.-based anti-fur campaign group Peta came to St. Petersburg this week to tell people to abandon fur as traders gathered for one of the biggest fur auctions in the world. |
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MOSCOW - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday mixed criticism of the Kremlin's record on democracy with praise for Russia's commitment to the war on terrorism and to nuclear nonproliferation on the second day of her visit to Moscow. Rice started her day by giving interviews to NTV television and Ekho Moskvy radio before meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin and giving an upbeat assessment of U. |
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Residents of the Petrogradsky district this week protested against plans by joint-stock firm New Technologies a to build a 30-meter high hotel in the Lopukhinsky Garden. |
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MOSCOW - Affluent cities such as St. Petersburg and Moscow are among Russia's most hostile environments for small business, according to a report published Wednesday. A survey of 4,350 entrepreneurs in 80 of Russia's 89 regions found that the northern Yamal-Nenets autonomous district and Bashkortostan were the top two places to run a small business. |
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MOSCOW - The Constitutional Court has been asked to water down a three-year statute of limitations on prosecuting tax offenses, which would open the door to back tax investigations against almost any company. |
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Ren-TV for Sale (Bloomberg) - MOSCOW Bertelsmann and Evrofinance-Mosnarbank are in talks to buy Ren-TV, a television channel that broadcasts in more than 800 cities, Vedomosti reported, citing people familiar with the transaction. Ren-TV, in which founders Irena and Dmitry Lesnevsky own 30 percent and state-run Unified Energy System holds 70 percent, may be sold next month, the newspaper said, citing unidentified people in the media business and people close to the Kremlin. |
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While other foreign carmakers are still deliberating over whether to start production in Russia, General Motors has committed itself to a second joint venture factory with Avtovaz, work on which may begin by the end of this year. |
 At least two budget airlines are expected to enter the St. Petersburg market just as the city's Pulkovo aviation company splits into an airport and an airline this summer. The airlines hope the separation will allow for a more flexible and productive cooperation with St. |
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Major bread and confectionery producer, St. Petersburg-based Pekar, has undergone a major overhaul of distributors and personnel in an effort to rejuvenate the company's operations. |
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Metro Plans 2nd Real ST.PETERSBURG (SPT) - German Metro group said it plans to invest 30 million euros ($37 million) into the construction of a second Real hypermarket in the city by 2007. The new store is set to open in the Severny Mall shopping center, the construction of which officially began Wednesday. |
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While it is prevailing in the military struggle in Chechnya, Russia is losing the struggle for democracy and socioeconomic development in the North Caucasus. As Moscow and its Chechen allies have placed increasing pressure upon militants and extremists in Chechnya, the low-intensity conflict has been spreading outward through neighboring republics where frustrations have been increasing. |
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THE NEW YORK TIMES The trial of the former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is nearing a verdict. Assuming, as everyone does, that he will be found guilty of fraud and tax evasion and left in prison, let's take stock: Russia has one fewer oligarch. |
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The St. Petersburg government's plan to cut many private transport routes and replace hundreds of dangerous fixed-route taxis, or marshrutkas, with bigger and more comfortable buses seems like the light at the end of the tunnel. The marshrutka has in recent years earned a reputation of being a killer van. |
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 SKIF9, or the Ninth Sergei Kuryokhin International Festival, the biggest and most notorious fringe music and arts event in St. Petersburg, opens this week. The festival honors the late musician Sergei Kuryokhin, who began his career as a member of the free-jazz Anatoly Vapirov Trio in the late 1970s. |
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The annual SKIF, or Sergei Kuryokhin International Festival, is probably the highlight of St. Petersburg's alternative music calendar and dozens of foreign acts come to the city to perform at the event. |
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What used to be Turkish bistro Sultan, located almost on the corner of Gorokhovaya Ulitsa and Sadovaya Ulitsa, is now the modest restaurant Shafran. It is named after saffron, the uniquely expensive yellow spice gathered from the stigmas of springtime crocus flowers in the Mediterranean, Central Asia and the Far East. It's rich honey fragrance is the taste of spring. Shafran's renovation was completed recently, and some of the old wall fixtures from Sultan are still to be seen although many design features and objets d'art have been added to enhance its interior. Shafran has four halls: the first continues to operate as a bistro, the second and the third are more formal restaurant halls, and the last is a room for relaxing on huge sofas with cushions and smoking pungent tobacco through exotic-looking hookahs - a pastime Petersburgers seem to have taken up with zeal. |
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 The games are over. Now it's the real Fandorin in the real deal." This is the slogan for the latest blockbuster adaptation of one of Boris Akunin's bestselling novels that featuring 19th century Russian detective Erast Fandorin. |
 As the camera restlessly circles the sky and the ocean, taking in the radiance of northern Spain, "Mar adentro" ("The Sea Inside"), the story of a quadriplegic activist fighting for the right to die, struggles to transcend the disease-of-the-week genre to which it belongs. |
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The Hermitage Theater will break with tradition Tuesday by hosting a concert by British-born jazz chanteuse Malia on its classical stage as part of the five-year anniversary celebrations of St. |
 Connoisseurs of French cinema have a special treat in store for them at the end of this month, when the "Festival of Music in French Films" opens at Dom Kino on Saturday. During the festival, which runs through Wednesday, several recent French films will be shown, many of them for the first time in Russia. The idea behind the festival is to highlight the importance of the soundtrack as an integral part of film art, festival organizer Alexandra Leibovich said. |
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 Who would think of staging a jazz dance competition in a land of sleeping beauties, swan princesses, lilac fairies and nutcrackers? What could inspire hot beats and flamboyant moves in a place like St. |
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The Sun Insults Pope BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's top-selling daily Bild blasted its British counterparts on Thursday for what it saw as their disrespectful coverage of the new Pope and their focus on his brief membership of the Hitler Youth. "'Hitler Youth' - English insult German Pope!" the paper titled its front page before listing headlines from British newspapers a day earlier announcing the election of conservative German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI. |
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Safin's Losing Streak BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Top-seeded Marat Safin of Russia was upset by Jose Acasuso of Argentina 6-4 6-4 in the second round of the Open Seat Godo on Wednesday. |
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